I don’t mean to start a PC/Mac riot, but I do love my recently-upgraded 1999 Apple G3 Macintosh, Blue & White style PowerPC computing device. I like its lines, its medium-loud fan, its entourage of frosted clear/aqua clear plastic peripherals, and the fact that after seven years I can still upgrade it.
I still love the Aqua interface of OSX 10.2.8, though now that I have upgraded to a 1Ghz PowerLogix ZIF processor (bumping my G3’s speed up from 400Mhz), I just may invest in OSX 10.4.6 and go all silvery.
When I absolutely have to do Windows, I just fire up Virtual PC on my Mac and run a primitive – and stable – Windows 98.
By the way, I still have a 1996 Apple Macintosh model 6400AV with all the bells and whistles that will fit in it, including a TV tuner card and a 320Mhz G3 processor upgrade. I use it at work from time to time, because its graphics programs run smoothly and sometimes faster than on the work-issue PC.
I use a fine little 1.8Mhz Sony Vaio laptop running Windows XP Professional at work and it only freezes up or crashes three or four times a week. My upgraded Mac starts up about twice as fast. I’ve been running it a week on the upgraded processor and it hasn’t had a conniption fit yet. It used to crash on its old processor about every month or so. How annoying. I figured it was time to replace it, but I couldn’t.
So I just replaced the processor chip.
I love the funny TV spots that Apple should have had their ad agencies creating and placing 20 years ago; they are still accurate and on-target and Apple would have much more than a 7% market share of the personal computing world right now if they had been running all those years.
I really enjoy looking at the exorbitantly expensive and elegant new Macs at CompUSA. Some of the new dual-Intel processor models can even boot to either Mac OSX or Windows XP.
But why would anyone want to?
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Our experience at work is that the couple of Macs we have are more trouble than they’re worth. They don’t play well with parts of our Windows based network – like printers & the mail server – and files created on them do not display the same on PC’s and visa-versa. Font issues mostly. They seem to lock up just as often as well, but I’m not in IT so I only hear about the troubles. Can’t convince the graphics guys to go PC, though.My work PC running Windows 2000 get’s rebooted every weekend only becasue I think it needs it. It very, very rarely crashes. Same for my 2 home laptops, one running XP Pro the other XP home as well as a very old 800 Mhz maching running XP home. Very rarely have a crash, except when the drive was dying on my laptop and I leave them run constantly.I used to love macs and I love the new ads, but my enthusiasm has cooled quite a bit. I agree, if Apple had run those 20 years ago the computing landscape might be different today. Back then it was a no brainer which system was supperior. Today, not so much IMO.
Heritic! 😉